US Amtrak train breaks apart while traveling at high speed

22:37 06 february 2018

22:37 06 february 2018 Source:
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WASHINGTON -- An Amtrak train broke apart early Tuesday morning as it was traveling from Washington, D.C., to Boston. According to a source who spoke with the New York Post, the train was traveling at a speed of 125 mph as it was heading towards New York's Penn Station.

WASHINGTON -- An Amtrak train broke apart early Tuesday morning as it was traveling from Washington, D.C., to Boston. The Acela 2150 train experienced a "mechanical issue when two of the train's cars separated" just before 7 a.m., according to Amtrak spokesperson Jason Abrams.

"Fifty-two passengers were transferred to Northeast Regional Train 180," he said. "There were no reported injuries to customers or crew."

According to a source who spoke with the New York Post, the train was traveling at a speed of 125 mph as it was heading towards New York's Penn Station.

Abrams says Amtrak is currently inspecting "every Acela trainset." Precautionary measures will be taken, if needed, to prevent the incident from happening again, Abrams said.

Further details were not immediately available.

Who's at fault in Amtrak crash? Amtrak will pay regardless .
Federal investigators are still looking at how CSX railway crews routed an Amtrak train into a parked freight train in Cayce, South Carolina, last weekend. But even if CSX should bear sole responsibility for the accident, Amtrak will likely end up paying crash victims' legal claims with public money.Amtrak pays for accidents it didn't cause because of secretive agreements negotiated between the passenger rail company, which receives more than $1 billion annually in federal subsidies, and the private railroads, which own 97 percent of the tracks on which Amtrak travels.

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